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Native American pictographs and petroglyphs. No directions or waypoints to rock art sites unless they are already known or published.

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Marble Bath Pictographs

Marble Bath Pictographs

There is a place way out in the backcountry of Death Valley National Park called Marble Bath. Actually, it is two places. Why there are two Marble Baths is a bit of a story. The real Marble Bath is a narrow marble canyon that contains some potholes (also called tinajas

Angel Canyon Ruin

Angel Canyon Ruin

Back in the summer of 2013, we took a quick trip to Utah. One of the places we visited was a small set of Anasazi ruins in two alcoves near Angel Canyon. It was an interesting hike to get out there. Some bushwhacking was involved. The ruins turned out to

Newberry Cave Pictographs

Newberry Cave Pictographs

Nestled high in the mountains above Barstow, Newberry Cave sits quietly and unassumingly. Caves and pictographs are both rare in the Mojave Desert; this is a unique and amazing place. The cave was first discovered by locals in the 1930s but wasn’t excavated until 1953 by Dr. Gerald Smith,

Lida Wash Petroglyphs

Lida Wash Petroglyphs

Lida Wash, in the Palmetto Mountains of western Nevada, doesn't see much traffic. While on our way to another petroglyph site, we spotted these very faint petroglyphs carved into volcanic ash. The petroglyphs appear to be of the Desert Archaic Abstract style. They blend in very well and

Grass Lake Basin Petroglyphs

Grass Lake Basin Petroglyphs

Back in 2005, Alysia and I made a brief stop at a petroglyph site high in the Sierra Nevada near Gold Lake. Petroglyphs in the high country are rare in my experience. And though the site is very small and the petroglyphs are faint, it was an exciting find for

Terese Petroglyphs

Terese Petroglyphs

Deep in the El Paso Mountains, at the site of a fossil spring, is an extensive Coso Native American village site. We found rock circles, grinding slicks, mortars, manos with metates, and petroglyphs spread out across a wide area. Each time we revisit the site, we seem to discover more.

Black Rabbit Petroglyphs

Black Rabbit Petroglyphs

Dan and I took a trip down to the Salton Sea region to look for a small set of petroglyphs I had heard about along a Cahuilla Indian trail. We were determined to find it. Access to the site wasn’t easy; a series of gates and farmland blocked most